The Sun. — London, England, 1818-12-30 00:00:00

F penilenee,,tif - e:EtWkiet 1 rithifetted throughout the Union on that subject, - and the abilities Of the op posite Counsel, have all combined , render thi .C4se an object of general interest.. IV. Wont, Esq. Attorney-General, alas GLYNN, Esq. D►s trict-Attorney, and DAVID HOFFMAN, Esq. appear in behalf of the United States ' ; and W. PINCK Slaty Esq. and Gen. WINDER, are the Counsel for the prisoner. The trial commenced on Wednes day ; several witnesses for the prosecution were examined, but ►he progresS of the testimony was tuspended to d;scliss a point of law. The Coun sel for the prosecution having offered to intioduce the capture of vessels not named in the indict ment, to evince the piratical intention, it was ob jected to by the C►►unsel for the prisoner. Mr. .HOFFMAN cited several authorities to prove the legal admissibility of such evidence, and was sup ported by Messrs. WORT and GLYNN. General - WINDER answered yesterday, and it is supposed Mr. PINCKNEY will submit his ideas to-day. t‘N (From thesa»te Paper of the sth.) . i n',. The Spanish Captain GARCJA, captured on the Coast of Africa by a British sloop of war, was executed for piracy at Fort Royal, on the 7th Sept. Previous to his execution he made several r►nsucces3ful attempts to destroy himself with a Mass bottle, and to jump into the sea. 'He was a man of family and of considerable wealth. CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 30.—1 n consequence of the advance in the price of Flour of ss. per tack, at the close of Mond,iy's Market, there was an increased demand for Fine Wheat this morn ing, which sold at 2s. per quarter higher. Fine English Barley fully supports Monday's prices, although we had an additional supply from Suf folk and Norfolk. Oats were rather more en quired after, and sold full as high as on Monday. In Pease and Beans there is no alteration. The term of the G e neral Mourning expired yesterday.—A change of Court Mourning takes place on :Sunday next, viz.:- ".The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen or muslin, white gloves, black and white shoes, fans, and tippets, white necklaces and ear-rings, no diamonds. " Undress—White or grey lnstrings, tabbies, or daniasks. " The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, plain er fringest linen, black swords and buckles. , " Undress—Grey frocks." TUR QUEEN'S' WILL, &c.—Mr. BINTINC; was • appointed, by command of the PRINCE REGENT, to value and divide the private property, which is to be equally divided between the Princess AU. GUSTA, the Princess of HESSE HOMBOURG, the Duch, Js of GLOUCESTER, and the Princess So 1-911A. The valuation of the property at the Queen's Palace, Windsor Palace, and Frogmore is ►early completed. Out Monday Lord ARDEN and General TAYLOR, the Executors to the QUEEN'S Will, attended a►. the Queen's Pa ' lace to proceed with the arrangements, as.direct , cd by the Will ; the Chamber of her late NIA . JKSTY, which had been sealed upon her demise, -was opened. At two • o'clock Mr. Serjeau►. VAUGHAN and Mr. HART, the QUEEN'S Attorney .and Solicitor-General, attended the Executors at the Queen's Palace, t'o make the necessary or ' rAngemefirs. Yesterday the Executors attended at the King's Mews, Charing' Cross, to view the -carriages and horses of the late QuKert, previous to their being sold. The Royal Arms, except 'the supportets, are obliterated from the carriages -with paint, the colonr of the panne's. Yestet day morning five of the horses were shot on ar , ount of their age, being between. 30 and 40, to pre- vent their falling to the work of dust carts, B:c. - - The jewels of the late QUEEN were removed from , the Bank of England, to be inspected by the • Execut.ots, and valued by Mr. BRIDGE. The Las!) CHANCIILLOK attended the House 'of Lords yesterday ; and we were happy to ob serve -his Lordship appeared considerably restor ed. .His complexion is clear and good ; but he is rather thinned by his late severe indisposition, and has not yet quite recovered from his lameness. The Gazette of last night contains Addresses of Condolence trom the City and County of Here ford, the County of Essex, the Bishop and Clergy •Of the diocese of Lincoln, 66 Burgh of Kirkby . _ in Kendal, the Governor and Council of the Isle ' of Man, the Royal Burgh of Cullen, the Burgh of Forres, the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow, the Parish of Maidstone, the Inhabitants of Leith, • -end the Borough of Ripon, and several other places ; all of which Addresses were presented by Lord Stnuotrx, and most graciously received. SMUGGLING.—" It is surprising," says a moat respectable Correspondent, to what an extent smuggling is carried on along the Sussex Coast. A few days ago I saw no less than eleven boats employed in removing goods in broathlay - light, in the neighbourhood of Hastings, and not . a soul appeared to molest them." They were all French vessels, whose crews, l am informed, are • particularly expert in these fraudulent expedi tions."—(Brighton Herald ) EX HUMATIOIa e A Coaess.---Yesterday morn . ing (29th), about four o'clock, the watchman in - Church-street, Mile-end New -town, was alarmed by the falling of some bricks from the wall of the New Chapel. He hastened to the spot, when a • :ram ran off, previously dropping a sack, which %vas found to contain the corpse of n the vife of a poor man in the neighbourhood. She ;bad been buried only last Sunday. The body was 'taken to the watch-honst, and re•interred by the ketper. The watchm in had a good view of one of the triffans, but 41 not succeed in apprehend itse him, although there is little doubt of his be • ing able to identify hint. i'ofi THE SUN. LANDING OF THE DUKE n OF WELLINGTON, As observed from Dover Castle. EDITOR,—A party of Officers on the look out for the landing of the Doke of WELLINGTON having assembled round me last week, and the subject of their conversation naturally taking a turn as to the time his Grace had been employed in •giining the vast renown he has acquired, your Paper was mentioned as a prophetic chronicle upon the occasion, and in a way that I think must gratify you is hear ; and as you at e known occasionally to give insertion to the Inca brations of the Buoy OF TUE Nova, the same in dulgence may perhaps be extended to the GWEAT Uu at this Castle. Be it known to you then, Mr. Editor, that it was stated by one of the Officers, alluded to, who appeared a middle-aged. man, and to have seen much service, that THE SUN Newspaper was at one titre the only daily publication that persisted in the rosecution of the Peninsular NVar, and founded its best hopes for success upon the eter tions of the Hero who commanded the British Army. The subject was disputed, and a reference made,when the Officer alluded to (who said he had your columns tiled for years back) produced THE Stn paper of the 511) March, 1810, where it was, among other things, expressly stated (in Italics, as learnt)—" Let a detertnined stand he made in " Portugal under Lord Wellington,—so orga ." nisetl, it will cost Buonaparte more' men, " trouble, and treasure, again to subjugate that " justly irritated people, than his subjects, vas ' " sals as they are, will approve of or submit " to," ! He fut"ther referred to your Paper of the 2d of August, in the same year ; where the same subject was again treated upon : but as I cannot charge my memory with every interesting or prophetic particular, by re ferring to the dates and knels about that period (for it was repektedly pressed in your Paper upon the Public), it will occur I-) you whether, in jus tice to Tile Sus, any part of such documents, truly prophetic as they appear to have been, are worth reprinting, I embrace the present occasion to offer, through you, to his Grace the Doke of Wellington (and w!,ich I trust may prove sccervable, as contiiig from an old and experienced Warrior) my sin cere and cordial congratulations, and hearty wel rome, upon his arrival in this happy land, after achieving all that a heart the most anxions for fame and glory could achieve or aesire. Whether the first footstep of such return should be marked by a pyramid., left to chance, or chi selled by man—whether the Great Captain of the Age should he suffered to seek his seat at the Council Board of the Kingdom in silent admira , tion only—or whether, in recurring to 'the period when Sir Arthur Wellesley firt leaped ashore in the Bay of Figueras in 1809, the human mind has cspaeity to contemplate the various chances and changes which ten revolving years, all of eventful import, must have produced, to return him as he now is I o his Country—became subjects of free discussion amongst the gallant Officers by whom I was surrounded. The whole result of as far as I could learn, may be summed up in their general opinion as follows, viz. : That aS his Grace would now be deservedly plaCed at the right hand of his Sovereign, in the bosom of his Councils, and the hearts of his fellow-citizens, it was their hope, and must be *the hope of Europe, that whatever situation may be assigned to him, it may be subject to nu poli tical change ; hut placed, like me, upon a lasting, fixed, and steady pinnacle, he may he enabled to 'overlook every change in the political horizon: capable as he must be of aiding by his experience, inspiring by his energy, teaching by his precepts, or inciting by his example, all the Ministers and all the men whom change of time or circumstances may or can create in this Kingdom's Cabinet. I am, Sir, your's, THE LONG GUN AT DOVER CASTLE. 27th December, 1818. BRIGHTON, Dec. 28.—The dinner party at the Palace consists of the suite of Royalty, without any visitants whatever. His Royal Highness's health is remarkably' good, and his spirits are torch improved within the few last days.' His Royal Highness generally takes exercise on horseback, before dinner, in the Riding-school. On Monday the Duke of Yoax came to town from Oatlands, and yesterday his Royal Highness left town for Brighton, on a visit to the REGENT. The accounts front St. Petersburg!, inform us, that the great demand 'there for gold and silver bullion is beginning to decrease ; the Government is willing to tike the gold, but having no longer the same pressing occasion fur it as formerly, will not agree to pay for it befote July next, thus re quiring a credit of More than six months ; this condition is an effectual damp to speculations in bullion, which may therefore be -expected to go in search of a better warket. POETRY. SATURDAY. tri glowing terms I would the day indite, (Its morn, its noon, its afternoon, and night); The busiest day througimat the week—the latter day; A day whereon odd matters ate made even ; The dirtiest—cleanest tooof all the seven ; The scouring—pail, pan, plate, and platter day; A day of general note and notability, A plague to gentlefolks; And prim gentility, E'en to the highest ranksnobility And yet a day (barring all jokes) Of great utility, Both to the rich as well as the mobility. A day of tlinof clack—a clatter day: For all, ho►ce'er they mince the -matter, say The day they dread, (A day with hippish, feverish, frenzy fed); Is that grand day of fuss and bustle, Saturday REGISTER OF FASHION. ARRIVALS.—Mr. anti the Hon. Mrs. Percy Fraser and TS mily, yesterday, at their residence in Somerset-place, from their cottage at Hampton Wick, for the season ; Bennett, Esq. at Farleigh Hall. Dsraa•ryKc.—Lieut.-Csloncl Blake, for Portsmouth, from the St. James's Royal Hotel. THE THEATRE. ThttrßY-LANIt.--The Tragedy of Douglas was last night represented at this Theatre in• so re spectable a manner altogether, as fully to deserve the approbation which attended, it. The part of Lady Randolph was performed for the first ,finis by Mrs. thovaa. This Lady is cettaitdy one of our best comic Actresses, and would have held a . high station in the Court of Thalia in the best periods of our theatrical history ;' but she is not equally well qualified to appear under the banners of her mournful Sister. Yet it may he fait ly said, that she at all times makes a respectable stand even in characters for which she appears not to have been intended by nature. Such was her performance last night. It was marked by judg ment and feeling, without reaching the higher cina!ities of the tragic province. Mr. 11. KRMBI,R, who is evidently rising into public favour by plain sense, lodgment, and unaffected' feeling, ap peared to considerable advantage in the part of Young Norval, which he represeuted with impressive, spirit, and appropriate sensibility. Messrs. HENRY JOHNSTON and HOLLAND were sntliciently respectable in Glenalvon and Lord Ran dolph. We now turn to an unpleasing part of our dio v, in stating that the same turbulent opposi tion which marked the preceding 'night burst forth again, last night. ho3tili!y to the new Pactoinime. Mr. STEPHEN KEmBLE, as before, came lot evard to learn the general anti unequivo cal decision of the audience respectint: its fate.— A continwil cry of " withdraw the Pantomime," followed his mild and respectful address. There was also a general call for I.3aAosuav to appear, but a hen he came a scene of re doubled turbulence ensued. After having in vain, by various gesticulations, attempted to obtain a bearing, he had the meanness to fall npon his knees to implore compassion. The noble pride of the British character Must have been indignant at sncli base submission ; hot we tru;t, that as he has received a lesson that will warn him against future insolence, that British humani ty will not drive hint from the exercise of those talents by which he subsists. .Mr. M`NAUGHTONI was i n t! ! ! boxes, and received wi!ll liberal com placency the gesticulated apology offered to hint by BRADBURY. Mr. M‘NaUGHToN condacts himself with so much gentlemanly decorum, when no thing occurs to offend his feelings, that we sin cerely regret to see him ever involved in . any matter that excites public notice, This Gentle man attempted to aildress the audience afterwards, but could not be heard, Other persons were equally 'prevented from addressing the audience, a consi derable part of whom lingered in the Theatre, but the fate of the Paotomime not appearing to be determined, we find that it is announced for this evening, when we have little doubt that similar outrage and turbulence will be the dis gusting result. INCLEDON , whose trip the Atlantic, we think, has mellowed, and, if possible, improved his voice, goes down to play Hawthorn to ttii old school-fellow's (DowToN) Justice Woodcock, at DowToN's Theatre, at Rochester, on Thursday next, the inhabitants of which city took every box for the occasion the day it was announced. - The favourable expectations which had been formed for improving the navigation of the river at Woolwich, by removing the men of war in ordinary, have been fully realized. The removal of the mooring chains, &c. have had the effect of nearly carrying away all the mud and silt which used to accumulate ; while, at the same time, the tide in ebbing and flowing has been greatly increased, and therefore more for cible in .its effects, and causing the navigation not to be so impeded as when the ships were lying there. This is not the only advantage obtained by this measure, for the Public have de rived a saving of more than 25,0001. per annum, which was paid a contractor for the removal of the mud and silt by lighters, which yielded. him in addition, it is said, a considerable sum of money. PEDESTRIANISM.—Yesterday John Woolley, a cooper, undertook for a wager of one pound, to run mond the paling in St. James's Park, in nine minutes. He started precisely at three o'clock, but lie lost by only half a minute. He then betted. another 11. that he would do it under nine minutes on Sunday morning next, and after wards that he would run 200 yards on the pa rade with any man who should chute to take. him np.. Last week, when some men were digging out the foundation of an old house near the quarry of Kethick, by (;spar. Angus, one of the workmen turned up 'with his spade, a small earthen jar, which, when examined, was found to contain 400 silver coins, and three of gold, of JANtes 1 of Scotland, tflost,of them in a fine state of preser vation. DARTMOUTH, DEC. al.—Arrived off this port last evening, and landed the Purser anti passen gers, the Ocean : I {EMMINGTON, from Bengal, whence she sailed the 141) August, and from St. Helena the 13th tilt. The Standard, licensed ship, sailed from Bengal with the _Ocean ; tho Prince Regent, Castle Huntley, Marchioness of Ely, and Henry Poreher, had arrived at Calcutta, The Phoenix and Lusitania sailed trom St. He lena fnr Bengal the 10th November; the Prince tegent, WHITE, was at St. Helena, and expected o sail in a day or two after the Ocean. DoYea, Dac. 29.—1 t having been reported, that the brig Effort, deserted by the crew on the Goodwin Sand last week, had been picked up and carried into Calais—the Master of the King George packet, who left Calais yesterday alter noon, says that no suph vessel had arrived there when he came away. FALMOUTH, DEC. 27.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Spartan from a cruise ; Marianna, NORMS, from London to Smyrna, &c,—put in to repair damages, having been struck by a sea, which car ried away all the staunchi.ms on the starboard side forward. Sailed the Duke of Kent packet with a mail for Lisbon. Since writing this evening we have seen Capt. liouGn, of his Majesty's cutter Active, who had just landed Iron► towing in tl►e'French ship Clio, VINCENT, from Martinique to Havre, out 77 days, 47 of which she has been dismastcd. PORTSMOUTH', DEC. 29.— Arrived the Crown, transport from Dover. Sailed the Clarkson, Ross, tor Demerara. PLYMOUTH, Dac. U.—Came in the Ocean, REMMINGTON, from Bengal for London ; sailed from St. Helena the 14th Nov. DEc. 28.—About four o'clock on Friday morning (Christmas -Day), the schooner Cargarff Castle, ALEXANDER ALLAN master, from hence to Aberdeen, with a valuable cargo, was run down. off Scarborough, in a thick fog, by the Fortune, ALEXANDER LEVI, of Arbroath, from Leith to this port, and immediately sunk. The whole of the crew of the schooner were saved in the latter vessel, which put into Whitby on the day following, to repair the damages sustain ed by the concussion. The master of the Cargaiff Castle states, that on account of the dev•liuv of the fog, he steered out to a consider able offing, in the hope of avoiding any ladea vessels that might be passing to the Southward. cusTom s LIST. Extered Inwards, Dec. 29.—Christina, Klok, Dordt ; Per• severence, Roberts, Antwerp; Proselyte, Barton, St. Vin cent's; Aurora, Hatch, Seville ; Aid, Leslie, Charante ; Su sanna, Means, Malaga; Providence, James, Genoa ; Mary, Bell, Trieste ; Triton, Marshall, Quebec. Entered Outwards, Dee. Richardson ,Jarnaictt ; Ocean, Holmes, do.; Oalies, Alderson, Madeira ; Barbadoes Planter, Redman, do.; Messcngar, Pace, St. Thomas's ; Mid dlesex, Adams, New York; Unity, Williamson, Bilbot Emulous, Powell, Antigua. Cleared Oltwards, Dec. 39.--Glory, Scott, Cadiz ; Zephyr, Cox, Honduras; boddingtons, Parent, Bermuda ; Fanny, Gilkison, St. Vincent's ; Melantho, Parrett, Bahia;Etuil4 de Matin, Le Ray, Rotten. Attempt at Highway Robbery : or, the Tables completely turned .—About half-past four o'clock this morning, as Mr. Bertram, a respectable butcher at \Velton, was proceeding. on horseback to this town, on his way to IledonfortniOit market, when he had got a little on this side of the Anlatbv turnpike-bar, he was acco'ied by two stiff-looking men in short jackets on foot, who atter asking him a few trifling questions, seized the brittle of iii horse, and one of them put a bundle dawn on the ground, and then struck Mr. B o•tram on •he side with a bludgeon, at the same time tkuta , niug his money. Mr. Bartram finding himself thus situated, made an inuncliate resistance with his whip, but was finally thrown upon the ground; being a powerful man he continued a strong and deterwiticd opposition to the robbers, and threatening to shunt them, they thought proper to draw back a little, when Mr. B seized their bundle which lay upon the turnpike road, re mounted his horse,,and got- safe with it to Mr. Lyon's inn, in Carr-lane, the melt following him for some time, threatening his life if be did not drop the bundle. Mr. B. was co;:siderably agi tated when he got to the inn, tool a good deal hurt in his side by the setae, and the force of the bludgeon ; but otherwise, we ,re happy to say, not materially hurt. The bundle, on examination, was found to con tain a pair of pistols, one of them loaded, muz zled, and the lock tied up ; au. elegant green plush purse, and a pocket-book ; a gentleman's drab cloth upper coat with covered buttons silk and cotton handkerchief onhenumed : and very considerable sum of money in bills and gold.. The greatest praise is due to Mr. Bartram for, his courage and activity an this perilous occasion. — (Hull Packet, Dec. 23 ) Nlrs.Couvrs caused to he distributed to the poor of Woodliftm Walter, in Essex, on Christmas Eve, six hundred pounds of good beef, four hundrcd qoartern loaves, three hundred pitt:nds of sugar, three hundred on-aces of tea, anti two huncirtai and wo articles of ‘varta clothing, and one shilling to every family, to purchase ale to take with their Christmas dinner. This Lady has also directed two shikings per week, to be given to 25 of the most distressed families during the three following